If a new hub is not featured, does this mean it is substandard?

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   xanzacowposted 12 years ago

   If a new hub is not featured, does this mean it is substandard?
   
   And, can others see it?
   
   

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   jansharesposted 12 years ago

   Yes, it means it did not meet the standard of the Quality Assessment Scale, which was recently tightened to improve quality on the site. However, it doesn't necessarily mean the hub is of low quality. It may be a decent hub that just needs more text, better images, better use of capsules, or cleaning up of typos or sentence structure.
   
   I just went through this with one of my hubs. After tweaking and editing, it was featured. But it really wasn't a bad hub, just needed to be tightened up a bit which I did in less than an hour.
   
   Yes, other hubbers can see it when it's not featured; it's just not seen by the public - - I think unless you manually share it with them.

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      TIMETRAVELER2posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I've been here for a year and until recently, just about all of my hubs were quickly featured.  Now I am having problems with certain hubs despite their quality.  I just resubmitted one THREE times before it was accepted.   Very frustrating!

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      xanzacowposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Very enlightening! Thanks for the info!

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   Ericdierkerposted 12 years ago

   Seems as though HubPages is a business. While they allow writing for many reasons the scores and features are how well a writing fits into a revenue generation scheme.
   
   So a short Haiku that is critical acclaim worthy without capsules will be around forty for a score and not be published outside of the pages. It is a good system that appears to make a profit.
   
   So your answer is yes - it is substandard for monetization. (if that is a real word)

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      xanzacowposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you Eric, as always, you shed new light to the subject!

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      Ericdierkerposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I have two that are ranked above 50, Have photo capsules, video capsules and are over 700 in length. Not featured. So I will look at them and figure how I can make them more marketable. Probably a few keyword issues and a bad title and improve my sum

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   TheAprilposted 12 years ago

   I think sometimes the hub checker-thingy that determines featured or not just gets tripped up. I had one hub that wasn't featured. I changed the placement of a couple of modules. Presto chango and it was featured. After you've checked it for quality, just change a few elements around and see it that does the trick.

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      xanzacowposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks!

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   peachpurpleposted 12 years ago

   if the new hub is substandard, it won't be publish at all. When a hub is published but not featured, it means the keywords that people commonly search for aren't in your hub. Hence, you need to use google keyword tool, add in the words in yr hub and presto, your hub is featured.

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      xanzacowposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks peachpurple!

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